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Tuesday, January 06, 2004
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Treo Madness gone awry?
Om Malik cancels his order for the Treo 600 after he learns that there's a 4 week wait.
One enterprising developer has produced a hack that allows you to change the JPEG compression that the camera software uses. Doesn't really make much difference though. You're better off using better lighting.
This morning on the W train going into Manhattan, I was sitting with the NYTimes on my lap when the lights went out for about ten minutes. I immediately pulled out my Treo I started to read some of the RSS feeds. With the bright screen and the dark subway car, it was like a shining beacon that attracted everyone's attention. Recently, before the start of Lord of the Rings: The Big Eye Gets It, I was reading my email, and just as the lights dimmed, the gentleman to my right said, "I hope you'll be turning that THING off sometime soon." He doesn't realize the people being driven to madness, as our poor Mr. Malik is, for a thing so PRECIOUS.
7:20:40 PM 
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Tales of VoIP
Andy Abramson (VoIP Watch) caught the blogging bug and we'll all benefit to now have the ultimate in critical analysis about Voip.
David Weinberger relates a tale New Rule: If you don't know me, don't call me, about his fellow subscribers on Skype who call each other, including David, at random to pass the time.
6:45:19 PM
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MoHCA's Roadmap to Mobile Healthcare Meeting, January 14, 2004, 9 am - 4 pm, hosted by Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Office.
If I could go, I would be especially interested in the session: Emerging mobile tools and methods for capture, access, communications by Don Jones, VP Business Dev., Qualcomm. Last year, I had a telephone conversation with him that was prompted by the debate (Jeffrey Belk of Qualcomm’s New Commentary and Rebuttal) on wifinetnews about the competition between wireless WAN vs. LAN.
Will 2004 become the year where both of these services, along with Bluetooth, be expected in the high-end converged device?
3:50:19 PM
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Wireless in San Diego
Fast Company posts this article subtitled, For a view of how wireless telecom will change the way we work and live, head to San Diego--where everyone from pharmacists to real-estate brokers is now coming unplugged. The major players there include Qualcomm, and the wireless division of larger companies such as Nokia and Siemens.
On the medical side, this story talks about San Diego's Sharp Healthcare and its use of wireless networks:
About a year ago, the managed health-care system began installing Wi-Fi networks in all of its seven San Diego-area hospitals. The first efforts--the introduction of rolling, wireless computer carts in intensive care and the emergency room--were a way to save space by eliminating large, fixed computer stations and clearing away cumbersome coils of cables. They were also an effort to improve efficiency and reduce mistakes--wireless-networked devices allowed hospital staff to track and update patient care and billing information while on the move, rather than storing up handwritten notes until the end of the day, then performing time-consuming and mistake-prone manual data entry.
Also described is the use of wireless Tablet PC's by the Pharmacy at Sharp Memorial Hospital. In development is a system for handling outpatient prescriptions which arrive by fax:
A new fax server will take the faxes electronically, then redirect them to pharmacists' tablet PCs for wireless approval.
(link courtest of wifinetnews)
3:27:42 PM
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